Whisky Galore! | Ealing 1949 | Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey
Basil Radford and Joan Greenwood star in this classic Ealing comedy about a bunch of Scottish Islanders…
Lord Jim | 1965 | Peter O’Toole, James Mason
Richard Brooks’ adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s story stars Peter O’Toole as the title character, a British Merchant…
The Assassination Bureau | 1969 | Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg
Diana Rigg is a British journalist who infiltrates a secret society of assassins and ends up falling…
The Passionate Friends | 1949 | Claude Rains, Trevor Howard
In this adaptation of H. G. Wells’s novel, Ann Todd plays a young woman who rejects suitor…
The Rocking Horse Winner | 1949 | John Mills, Valerie Hobson
A faithful adaptation of the tragic D.H. Lawrence story. A young boy gradually discovers that by riding…
The Clairvoyant | 1934 | Claude Rains, Fay Wray
A fraudulent psychic (Rains at his creepiest) begins to have terrifying, authentic flashes into the future. The…
Lolita | 1962 | Peter Sellers, James Mason
The novel that remains an unquenchable controversy as adapted for the screen by its author, Nabokov. While…
Murder! | 1930 | Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring
Alfred Hitchcock uses sound imaginatively in one of his earliest talkies, making the most of Marshall’s mellifluous…
The Spanish Gardener | 1956 | Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley
Adapted from AJ Cronin’s novel, The Spanish Gardener is the story of a minor diplomat, played by…
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service | 1969 | George Lazenby, Diana Rigg
George Lazenby briefly steps into 007’s shoes and the result is one of the best films in…
The Man Who Haunted Himself | 1970 | Roger Moore, Hildegard Neil
Roger Moore is the businessman who, after a road accident, discovers that his doppelganger has taken his…
Winslow Boy, The | 1948 | Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke
Adapted from his play by Terence Rattigan, this film assembled the cream of the talent available in…